All companies are crying for help. My hourly rate for the class of tanker is $43/ hr straight time for a first engineer . I have 40 + years of experience and burger flipper’s are making $20/ hr. Wipers are paid nothing dealing with noise dirt and advanced FF training and making less than Mickey D’s…

Most US flag ships I encounter are sailing short these days or have a good number have new grads sailing as rates (not the worst thing in the world) while collecting 3/m pay. On more than one occasion a ships voyage has been paused to await personnel to fill the COI. One has to figure this will w…

I’d like to give my two cents on shoreside roles too. I work for a foreign-flag shipowner in the USA. As a senior superintendent my salary is $96,000/year and bonus of $10-12,000 annually. The requirements for the position when I was hired was minimum 5 years as Chief Engineer, 15 years as senior…

@CEallthree Sounds like MSC to me. $12/hr is absolutely crazy to leave your home and family for 4-6months. It’s not worth regardless of how much overtime you get. Working overtime is extra of your life youll never get back and it’s no way a compensation for poor pay. Entry level pay for the marit…

We are paying $300 to $400 a day for OS. No overtime. They are hard to find.

I would think with your skills and experience there is a non-shipping industry, engineering sales, or facilities plant type job with less travel that pays more. But it also may depend where you geographically live. Are those Ukrainian officer rates you quoted for the months they work only? No pa…

I was a Master/OIM up until 2017, at the time, pay was decent, down from the high’s of the 2010-2014’s. Came ashore in 2017, now I make more than I ever did per year in Business Development and Strategy as an Executive than I did as a Master/OIM during the good times when you had pay + retention + …

Yes, the salaries noted are for time on board only. The Ukrainians work 3-4 month contracts for senior officers, 6 months for juniors. The Filipinos want to live on board and we almost have to pry them off the ship at 11 months, though some do 6 month on/off contracts. I also worked for companies…

[image] PDCMATE: now I make more than I ever did per year in Business Development and Strategy as an Executive than I did as a Master/OIM during the good times Still in oil and gas or a different industry?

[image] Capt_Phoenix: Still in oil and gas or a different industry? I moved over into emerging technology in maritime (working with emissions/ghg reduction)

Man, any way to get you to pm me? I have loads of quality os and wipers that are hungry for career advancement that have got caught in the whirlpool of shitty management. Right where they want them, forcibly retained employees. I’d love to be able to point these guys in a direction to allow them to …

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Same at Global Marine (and then GlobalSantafe) when I worked there.

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